President Jimmy Carter - Report to the Nation on Energy 

His speeches are relaxing.

I believe he sincerely wanted to make things better, but those were terrible times.

Why has this message not been put on daily repeat for the last few decades? The energy crisis never truly ended and has only gotten worse.

Carter was a good president in my opinion. He was the first president to at least try to fight the inevitable future dependance on foreign oil. He imagined that solar power might be a solution, as was illustrated by the symbolic placement of solar panels on the white house. I can see energy independence being achieved if we built thorium based nuclear reactors. Look up LFTR it's a great idea, and solves so many problems.

Thank you posting this. Carter was an amazingly different President. I wish I was old enough to really remember when he was President (I was born in 1973).

If only we had listened to Carter back then

I support and will obey Jimmy Carter forever!

Rockin' the sweater like a boss

started with Reagan. And I think we will be paying for the deregulation of the financial sector and other actions like union busting for a very long time to come. Carter is the only living prez that I will be sad for when he passes on - although hopefully he will be going to better things then:-) great video and comments and sorry for my 'run-on' comment!

Nothing like an "efficient" fireplace to drive the message home.

Jimmy Carter is a national treasure. I really wonder what our country would be like if his ideas caught hold while he was president, but people couldn't handle the idea of giving up modest comforts to help their fellow man.

I was 10 years old when Jimmy Carter made this speech. I remember that my family, black Americans who voted Democrat in every election, were so angry about this speech. I find it hilarious that almost 50 years later there are still people who talk about Jimmy Carter and his wife as though they were saints, especially during the recent obsequies for Rosalyn Carter. The problem is the Carters may be nice people but the vast majority of Americans don't vote someone to be President to be nice. We want somebody in the White House who solves problems and, more importantly, prevents future problems by avoiding ill-considered public policies. Carter's poor performance was the single biggest factor in Reagan's crushing victory in November 1980.

Watch the malaise speech too. He is in better physical shape here. Interesting what 2.5 years of presidential stress does to a guy.

Damn Jimmy Carter looks like he came from Fred Rogers shows.

He's like Mr. Rogers, except scolding us for using too much energy and we must sacrifice.

Your sweeping statement about socialism ignores the fact that many countries with historically high living standards would be considered socialist from an American point of view.

30+ years later, and his successors still have made NO attempt to address the future of our energy. People can say whatever they want about Carter, but he was ABSOLUTELY right about energy.

Carter popped the OPEC price bubble - which made the Reagan recovery possible. He seldom gets credit for that - but it was arguably his greatest accomplishment as president, and the hardest.

A fireside chat.

The problem is with an apathetic, lazy and entitled populace. Our political parties are merely a reflection of that. They do make a good scapegoat for mindless populism, though.

Nice man Bad Leader.

Deregulation in the 1980s helped the fledgling personal computer industry as well as the internet boom in the next decade. Clinton and Reagan both deserve credit.

@moonsugar1 :) To be fair, he's no spring chicken, but he's still out there, changing the world :D

Jimmy Carter was an intelligent individual and good president. He had his fair share of mistakes, but history should view him more favorably overall.

Carter was to honest to be the President. He done a darn good job!

39 years ago --- "energy shortage is permanent " he said.2016 --- energy glut

@incrediblehulkmovies Not entirely... If you watch Obama's addresses they are not focused on citizen cooperation like our friend Carter. Obama's address is policy based where they will create policies to combat it. Carter alternatively focuses on citizens cooperation to combat it. They are going for the same thing but they are not singing the same tune.

This was how many years ago? And we still don't have a coherent energy policy. Coal is pretty much off the table now. With the problems of Fukujuma, the future of nuclear energy is in doubt. Solar power is not yet affordable. Wind power can only be relied upon for a small percentage of our needs.

Mister Rodgers!!!! ...oh wait

I remember the Winter of 76/77.

Clearly Jimmy Carter thought the American people would always accept the FDR style fireside chat speeches. But, Americans didn't want a reality check, they wanted to feel great again regardless of the hard reality. Reagan made a lot of people feel great again. No pun intended to Trump. Ironically Democrats loved the fireside chat style Biden used at The Democratic National Convention, yet they never really liked hearing that style from Carter.

he was big government and you know it.

Interesting that he mentions coal as an alternative to crude oil. I do recall reading rather serious articles about it.

How tragic that this opportunity for the US to make a big change on time was missed. We can but hope they finally learned and manage to catch up on time!!!

@moonsugar1 Jimmy Carter is still alive...

@yorkiebell Too bad he was also into big government, more controls into our lives.

He is the best human we have ever had as President. Bless him.

@thejarz On a totally unrelated topic, I should probably you that your suicidal elmo video, made me spit coffee over my screen with laughter ;)

The economy was emerging from recession in 92. The recovery wasn't complete, but things were improving. Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation on 8/10/93. The economy took a nose dive and Americans elected a Repub majority in both the House AND Senate in 1994 giving them control of Congress for the first time in 40+ years. Conservative budget priciples brought properity. The Repubs became corrupt and gave up those principles after 9/11. Facts are stubborn things. Registered IND in '04

Real mature response.

Wow. Saying the Energy shortage is Permanent was not a good thing to say.

I disagree. Government that won't do fuck all about the problems facing it's citizens is pointless. I'm not saying I'm for dictatorship or anything, just a government that actually tries to solve problems rather than ignoring them and hope they'll go away. After all, that's why we pay taxes, we're paying the government to solve problems we ourselves can't. If they just sit around and do nothing, then it's a waste of our money. If I'm paying for the government, I want to get my money's worth.

$10/gal is expensive but that's not pushing it into rich people only territory. Although the car taxes in some countries are outrageous. But the supposed freedom of a car really depends on where you live. Traffic congestion is so bad that owning your own auto is a huge expense for not a great deal of convenience. Many places have such good car-sharing options - pick up from anywhere and return to almost anywhere that it's smarter to use that and public transit rather than owning your own auto

Very good. I see you know where Europe is. Now for extra points go find the northern European countries, which, for decades, have been near the top in living standards and social commitment. And, while enjoying your schadenfreude at the current Euro fortunes, do acknowledge the masterful hand Wall St had in aiding their misfortunes. Oh, let's not forget that almost every intelligent economist has stated that austerity is the wrong strategy in a severe recession.

Both did some good things, both did some bad things. The President is really just a face on the government to give us a scapegoat.

Barrack? Isn't that a form of military accommodation?

Cute president cute thoughts on energy conservation for his nation.........If people like him not born to govern a country then really world will lose a great leader taking a nation in confidence telling them methods to save energy.......Great person like him can do that.........Great J. Carter....President of USA.

Poor Carter. He should've had a second term. He was so right. The 1970s where a time when energy crisis was looming, They had the worst energy crisis in history up until the 2000s because everyone was wasteful, driving V8 muscle cars and trowing herion neddles in the streets. The 1970s was a hard time regardless of what the nostalgia would tell you. All those men coming home from Veitnam hooked on the local junk, urban decay, gas crisis.

President Jimmy Carter seemed a bit out of touch with the late 1970s, doing this "fireside chat" like it was the 1930s and 40s. He should have done a TV spot on the tennis court, on the beach, or even in the White House wearing jeans, a knit shirt and Nike cross trainers, that would have been in more step with the times than doing this Franklin D. Roosevelt imitation.

Joe Biden makes you nostalgic about Jimmy Carter's disastrous tenure

Less government is better.

Peter Navarro brought me here. hehe

@AmericanRuffian Too bad, he is a CFR member and will not get my support.

I truly hope your just joking around.

Of course these are things we "should've done years ago," this speech was in 1977.

I'm sure health care, along with many other issues (Don't ask Don't Tell, raising income taxes on Soc Sec benefits, flat economy, stock market dip, etc.) was a big factor in the Republican victory. That doesn't prove sound fiscal policy wasn't a major factor in late 90's prosperity. Send me those links (factCheck and CBO). I'd be interested in reading them.

Socialism = Cuba, Vietnam, USSR, Mao's China, North Korea, etc. Social Democracy = Sweden, Germany, UK, Canada, etc.

The Saudis keep getting richer while our own oil reserves are kept out of production and people in the oil industry are losing their jobs.

@kalinga01 By having more government into our lives is the wrong choice.

Hahaha, nice one, JGMagoo!!

in europe they paying $10 for a gallon of gas! Only the rich could afford to drive. I hate being forced to use public transportation. I cant go anywhere, at anytime and change routes. Buses and trains can only travel on a certain route and I have to wait for it to arrive. In my car, I can go anywhere at anytime and go directly to where I want to go and turn back if I want. Not even the best public transportation could do that.

Explain how he was the worst?

and reagan refused to sign the LOST treaty.

Man wore a sweater

Cadillac helped by continuing to build the biggest gas guzzlers they could

Turn off the lights cause we ain’t got no fuel

No longer the worst President

Wow. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, has changed in this country since this speech was given. We're still hopeless.

@jawmo1 Got that right.

@thejarz Then I shall take that comment and with it bake a nice humble pie! My only excuses being Im British and a musician. lol

@yorkiebell But carter was about more taxes, more regulation and more controls.

I really can't even begin to put what you typed into a logical and flowing thought. So you think Obama is or is not a savior? Your last sentence is hard to follow.

A good heart, but no understanding of how Washington worked. Disliked from members of his own party.

Nice guy I am sure, just not a strong leader

If he had more energy in his body maybe he wouldn’t have appeared so weak.

Yep, create a new gov department. That’s the solution. “The energy crisis is permanent.” Not exactly an optimist was he. And since then The Clean Air Act cleaned up LA, the US was energy independent under Trump, and gas prices were the lowest in 40 years. Carter was I. Way over his head.

Star for the punks, no future...

Bullshit.

I like Jimmy Carter, but he was a failure as president and that damn sweater made him look even more like a looser

Gee 2021 with Biden: That 70's show with jumps in food prices and gas lines --only real... Jimmy the 2nd Biden.

What accomplishments...they do not outweigh his massive failures. He was an inexperienced man from Georgia, a farmer. He became governor and was suddenly president. A sort of similar story to Sarah Palin actually...the point is he did a lot of horrible things.The Iran crisis, the huge gasoline crisis, the economic crisis...you understate all this and overstate a stupid energy policy. Yes, he did his best. But his best wasn't enough for America at that time, and that is the truth of it.

The 1980's ended the energy crisis.

Ah...Jimmy Carter and the late 70s. He would put on a swaeter, sit by the fire, and lecture the American people about how much we sucked. Worst president of the last 90 years until Brandon showed up.

Carter was a terrible president. Thank goodness Reagan came along in 1980.

Better big government then do nothing government.

He was Big government.

Sent in private message

not only hopeless but in danger of being over-ran by islam.

are true, not is true. And Both of your statements are false. THey were installed and removed.

Like Biden today, clueless!

you think you sound so smart by calling our president Monkey? Do you feel important making comments like this on youtube?

Total robotoid.

What countries would those be? Would that be the thriving democratic socialist nation of Greece that is experiencing almost daily riots due to its collapsing economy? Or would that be Spain or Portugal who are next in line to fail after Greece? Italy isn’t far behind. George Soros says the Euro is a bubble about to burst within the next few months. The UK has implemented austerity measures. Iceland is losing population due to its miserable economic future.

Carter was incompetent and awful.

Get a life, the rich should go to jail.

This reminds me of Biden

What a disaster President